At midnight this morning (July 2nd 2014) the Open Rights Group (re)launched their Censorship Monitoring Project at https://www.blocked.org.uk.

Within hours it had hit the front pages of reddit, Hacker News and BoingBoing, it was also featured on the Telegraph and exploded on Twitter.

How did the ISPs respond to this new found exposure of their over-blocking?

By shooting the reporter of course; https://www.blocked.org.uk/results?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblocked.org.uk%2F

I’d say this behaviour is disgusting but when the Government creates the power to enforce who can see what is it any surprise that it gets abused?